A Study On Novels Of Peasant Workers In New Period

The movement of peasant workers is an contemporary important social phenomenon in China.With the reform and opening,the phenomenon of substantial movement of peasant workers has appeared.The living condition of this group is gradually getting more and more attention,and afterwards the literary creation focusing on their living state has appeared.Classified by author’s status,the creation group of peasant workers falls into grassroot writers and elite writers,which owing to the difference in personality and experience that exist among the writers group,lead to the distinct difference in creation.This thesis intends to research the similarities and differences that exist between the grassroot creation and elite creation of novels of peasant workers in terms of theme expression,text feature,narrative characteristics,as well as their respective defects and deficiencies,and at the same time,using the two types of creation contained in the novels of peasant workers as a point of departure,analyze the value and meaning of novels of peasant workers.The introduction introduces the historical background of the appearance of novels of peasant workers and the concept definition of such novels.After the reform and opening,substantial surplus rural labour flow to cities,and the group of peasant workers appears.peasant worker refers to the rural population who are mainly engaged in non-rural secondary and tertiary industries in towns and cities with their rural Hukou.Novels of peasant workers refer to those which use peasant workers as objects of writing.Chapter 1 treats the characteristics of grassroots creation of novels of peasant workers in terms of narrative content and text feature.From the perspective of narrative content,the grassroots writers mostly reveal the hard and embarrassing living circumstance of peasants,express the mutual questioning and harm,and focuses on the emotional loss resulting from the moral loss among the working group,reflecting on the whole the survival confusion as a negative affect.Some grassroots writers emphasize the positive and arduous mental outlook which is presented by the group of peasant workers.Such novels exert certain positive guiding function for the development of the group of peasant workers.The text feature of grassroot writers is embodied in the common touch,realness and artistic inequality.Chapter 2 treats the characteristics of elite creation of novels of peasant workers in terms of theme expression and narrative characteristics.Generally speaking,the theme revelation by grassroots writers are mainly concentrated in firstly the display of misery of peasant workers and secondly the questioning and introspection on modernity.Elite writers also have some shortcomings in theme expression,which are mainly embodied in the lack of positive guidance and stimulation for peasant workers,as well as the lack of reflection on the identity shift of peasant worker and other issues of future survival and development.The narrative characteristics of elite creation of novels of peasant workers mainly reflect in melancholy and elitist narration.Chapter 3 by starting from the relation between novels of peasant workers,history of literature and social ideology,digs in the depth of the meaning of novels of peasant workers in the history of literature.The novels of peasant workers are essentially life writing of seeking survival towards cities,reflecting the modern transformation which is taking place in China and owning the significance of time recording.The novels of peasant workers is a creation which is formed by being based on the existing grass-roots literature and incorporating urban elements.The addition of modernity to them has led to the change of visual threshold of the creative group and brought new reflections and challenges to writers.The act of exploring novels of peasant workers according to the concrete creation of such novels is itself a creation with mixed discourses,which contains the speech and self-speech of people living at the bottom of the society.